Improved medical compound



oscAnoQoIT-Mnns, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

. Letters Patent No. 7 5,536, dated March 1-7, 1868.

' IMPROVED MEDIGAL COMPOUND.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN Be it known, that I, OSCAR GQDITMARS, of thecity, county, and State of New York, have invented or discovered anevzand useful composition cl matter or medicine called The 'AmericanCough.. .Balm, for curing or relieving coughs and colds, and forrestoring to the nervous system its proper. tone and vigor whenprostrated or debilitated. from excessive labor or lingering illness, orother causes; e

To enableothers skilled in the art to make and use my invention ordiscovery, I will proceed to describe the materials of which my medicineis composed, .a'nd the relative proportions of each which'I employ,-andthe manner of compounding the same, and the mode of applying-the samefor curing or relieving the diseases and ills above mentioned.

- First, the medicine is a liquid.

Second, it is composed ofv the-following-named materials, and inthe-following proportions, viz, one gallon of best Jamaica rum., onepound of block-lea? sugar, half a pound of balm-of-Gileadbu ds.

Third, the requisite strength of the buds above named is to be obtainedby slow distillatiomaccording to theordinary'process, to be conducted asfollows: 'The rum is to be applied to the buds and the sugar when theyare in a dry state, and no other liquid is to be used. Beingthussaturated with-the rum, the healing propertiesof the buds and sugarare extracted by sloiv distillation, which should be continued for aboutfive days. During the distillation the liquid should not be heated aboveabout one hundred. degrees (100) of Fahrenheit, or what is called bloodheatl The temperature of the liquid should be kept as nearly equable aspossible during the process of distillation. At the termination of theprocess of distillation, the liquor should be filtered, so as. to leavea pure, clear liquid, whi-ch constitutes the medicine, and is ready foruse. It may be preserved in bottles or otherwise, as is desired-S Someother spirituous liquor besides Jamaica rum may be used,

'bntI prefer that kind. The proportions of-the ingredients used incompounding themedicinerhay be somewhat varied, but I prefertheproportions above. stated.

Fourth, the mode of administering the medicine is as 'folloiv's: Forcoughs andcolds, and .for restoring the tone and vigor of the nervoussystem, when prostrated or debilitated in themode above stated, giveto'an adult person about a half of a gill before each meal, morning,noon, and night and also just before going to bed at night. Give to achild, in, the like circumstances, about one-third toque-half the abovequantity;

Having thus described my medicine or composition of matter, what I claimas my invention or discovery,

' and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The medicine herein described called The American Cough Balmfi WitnessesHENRY Summon: ALFRED Anson).

OSCAR G, 'DITMARS.

